<div dir="ltr">Hi Sandra,<div><br></div><div>I can't find the thread on the 29th Sept - was that a statement from VCAA?</div><div><br></div><div>My 2c - and it may just be worth that - is that if it's in the study design - it's in. There would be no reason to include it if there was no intention to examine it or if it served no purpose. I feel like the use of the word 'or' is because the terms are synonymous (I suppose!). I think perhaps the dot point could have been written differently if this was the intention?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Adrian</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Sandra Mobbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.mobbs@cccc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">s.mobbs@cccc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would have thought by the phrasing "..including associative arrays (or dictionaries, or hash tables)..." that the question would be asked in a way that wouldn't directly test hash tables. It was discussed on this list back on the 29 September and hash tables were listed as something that not all students had to know.<br>
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This issue popped up a year or two ago during the draft design reviews.<br>
The phrasing in the design is a bit odd, but I believe it's implying that all of the 3 named terms are synonymous, and therefore are to be treated as exactly the same thing..<br>
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I don't agree, but I'm guessing that won't surprise anyone.<br>
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On 10 November 2016 at 13:20, Lisa Kerekes <<a href="mailto:Lisa.Kerekes@donvale.vic.edu.au">Lisa.Kerekes@donvale.vic.edu.<wbr>au</a>><br>
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